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Not very unique to Japan. You can also see these techniques in other East Asian countries like China, Korea. Japanese guys are good at promoting their cultures

by limoce 4y ago

Not very unique to Japan. You can also see these techniques in other East Asian countries like China, Korea. Japanese guys are good at promoting their cultures anyway.

wavefunction 4y ago
It's a blog about Japanese food which is why they're talking about "Japanese techniques." This article places the shapes or cutting techniques described within the context of Japanese cuisine. That someone somewhere else has at one time or another cut a vegetable does not really reflect on the formal techniques of a cuisine whether that be French, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Japanese or other cuisines that put a significant focus on defined techniques and following specific processes.
- jbay808 4y ago
  This should be the top comment. It's like criticizing a tutorial page on pythonguy.com titled "Python techniques for copying data structures" because the author didn't explain that the same techniques are used in Julia. Maybe readers are inferring some nationalistic element to a cooking tutorial, where people assume that a description of techniques used in Japanese cooking is some kind of claim to ownership of them? I think this article is interesting on its own terms, because regardless of your heritage, if you haven't studied cooking you might not have experimented with how you cut vegetables. I always used to just straight chop everything when I made a stir fry, but now I try to be more creative.
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OJFord 4y ago
And West Asian, and all Asian, and European, and American..
- 1-6 4y ago
  The question then becomes, who doesn’t cut their food this way? Astronauts?
  - klyrs 4y ago
    Stone age cultures?
eternalban 4y ago
I'm not sure these are necessarily limited to east Asia (minus the apple dragons at the end). This reminds me -- entirely orthogonal -- of the big deal made about the fact that pyramids were constructed on disconnected continents. Seems to me it boils down to geometry and physics -- there are only so many ways to heap stuff. Same with the veggies. These are just the natural permutations for the most part. As for techniques, my favorite is cutting a minimal slice off of round items (think onions) to use as a flat stable bottom before attempting thin slicing.

by limoce 4y ago

Not very unique to Japan. You can also see these techniques in other East Asian countries like China, Korea. Japanese guys are good at promoting their cultures anyway.

wavefunction 4y ago

It's a blog about Japanese food which is why they're talking about "Japanese techniques." This article places the shapes or cutting techniques described within the context of Japanese cuisine. That someone somewhere else has at one time or another cut a vegetable does not really reflect on the formal techniques of a cuisine whether that be French, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Japanese or other cuisines that put a significant focus on defined techniques and following specific processes.

jbay808 4y ago
This should be the top comment. It's like criticizing a tutorial page on pythonguy.com titled "Python techniques for copying data structures" because the author didn't explain that the same techniques are used in Julia. Maybe readers are inferring some nationalistic element to a cooking tutorial, where people assume that a description of techniques used in Japanese cooking is some kind of claim to ownership of them? I think this article is interesting on its own terms, because regardless of your heritage, if you haven't studied cooking you might not have experimented with how you cut vegetables. I always used to just straight chop everything when I made a stir fry, but now I try to be more creative.

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OJFord 4y ago

And West Asian, and all Asian, and European, and American..

1-6 4y ago
The question then becomes, who doesn’t cut their food this way? Astronauts?
- klyrs 4y ago
  Stone age cultures?

eternalban 4y ago

I'm not sure these are necessarily limited to east Asia (minus the apple dragons at the end). This reminds me -- entirely orthogonal -- of the big deal made about the fact that pyramids were constructed on disconnected continents. Seems to me it boils down to geometry and physics -- there are only so many ways to heap stuff. Same with the veggies. These are just the natural permutations for the most part. As for techniques, my favorite is cutting a minimal slice off of round items (think onions) to use as a flat stable bottom before attempting thin slicing.